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Comics Experience is a comics fan and professional destination that offers expert insight, instruction and professional services.

This Week Only – 30% OFF Coloring Courses!

If you’ve ever dreamt of coloring comics, these classes are for you!

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Courses

All of Comics Experience’s writing, art and production courses are taught by industry professionals with proven track records for excellence and great interest and aptitude for teaching.

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Pro Script Critiques

Request a professional critique of your script! The fee is determined by the number of story pages in a script. Community Pro members receive a 10% discount on Pro Critiques.

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Mentoring

In some cases, more personalized attention is needed, either to help a particular creator grow or to help the creator with his or her particular project. This goal-oriented program has proven successful for many creators, and may be just the thing you or your project needs! Community Pro members receive a 10% discount.

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Community Pro

If you want to learn with others like you, then you should consider joining our Community Pro level where you’ll meet tons of other folks into comics and into making them. You’ll have access to professionally led lessons on all aspects of the business and comics creations and more!

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Creative Services

Our trained and seasoned editorial staff can find artists and creators to create a comic for you! If you’ve got a script already, no problem. If you need a script written, we can do that, too! Whatever you need to alleviate that burden, we have done before and can do for you.

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Legal Services

Comics Experience partner Gamal Hennesy’s independent company can handle all aspects of contracts and law that you’ll need to publish your comic, work with others, and make sure all your “i”s are dotted and “t”s are crossed.

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Printing

If you’re planning to physically print your comic, our sister company ONS is one of the best in the business. ONS has printed comics for Image Comics, IDW, Humanoids, and countless more—they even specialize in crowdfunded comics and art books.

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Distribution

In some cases, Comics Experience can help creators get their comics distributed nation wide. This is done on a case by case basis.

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Printing

If you’re planning to physically print your comic, our sister company ONS is one of the best in the business. ONS has printed comics for Image Comics, IDW, Humanoids, and countless more—they even specialize in crowdfunded comics and art books.

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Distribution

In some cases, Comics Experience can help creators get their comics distributed nation wide. This is done on a case by case basis.

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Legal Services

Gamal’s independent company can handle all aspects of contracts and law that you’ll need to publish your comic, work with others, and make sure all your “i”s are dotted and “t”s are crossed.

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Mentoring

If you want to learn how to make these connections or build your own publishing business, we recommend our mentoring program with mentors who can work one-on-one with you to develop your publishing plan and set you on the path to getting it done!

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Community

The Comics Experience Community gets you access to our private Discord where you can join in on conversations about industry topics and new releases! Super fun and informative.

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Community Pro

Community Pro gets you access to everything in Community, PLUS a lot more—live sessions with seasoned professionals, Q&A conversations, Office Hours with Andy Schmidt and Gamal Hennessy where you can ask discuss your project with them and get advice, archived content on all aspects of comics publishing and creation, plus discounts on everything in the Comics Experience store!

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Latest Courses

Comics Writing: Story Arcs & Ongoing Series

Instructor: Fred Van Lente

Acclaimed comics writer Fred Van Lente takes you through the necessary steps to craft compelling story arcs and ongoing comic book narratives exactly like professional comic book writers do it.

Comic Book Editing & Project Management

Instructor: Andy Schmidt

Find collaborators, manage budgets, timetables, bring the best out of your writers and artists, problem solve, and make a professional-level project!
Introduction to Comic Book Coloring Bundle

Instructor: Chris Sotomayor

Learn how to color comics from a pro! This bundle contains a discounted price for the first three courses in our series to teach you how to color comics from the ground up! PLUS, you get the bonus course on Special Effects FOR FREE!
Introduction to Comic Book Writing Bundle

Instructors: Andy Schmidt and Paul Allor

If you’ve ever dreamt of writing your own comic or wanted to improve your existing skills – this class bundle is for you.
Coloring: Tools, Art Preparation and Flatting

Instructor: Chris Sotomayor

In our earliest coloring course, you’ll learn what tools are needed to color comics, how to use them for that purpose, what your art should look like and how to prep it for coloring.
Comics Writing: Story Foundations & Development

Instructors: Andy Schmidt and Paul Allor

Your story starts here! Learn how to methodically build a story from the ground up, narrative structure, character building, and much more.
Comics Writing: Writing for a Visual Medium

Instructors: Andy Schmidt and Paul Allor

In the Foundations course, you learned how to build a story. In this course, you’ll learn how to develop any story for a visual medium. What is it about comics specifically, that’s going to effect how you tell your story? How do you script so that your artist will get the most out of your script–or just as importantly, that you don’t tie one of your artist’s drawing hands behind their back.
Coloring: Color Theory and Application to Comics

Instructor: Chris Sotomayor

In this course, you’ll learn not just what color theory is, but how it applies to comics specifically. Comics are rarely just one illustration or image, they are comprised of multiple images on a page, that all have to have balance within themselves and with all the other images. 

Our Approach Starts with You!

Comics Experience is dedicated to help you achieve your goals. With Comics Experience, you’ve got confidence that you’re in good hands with loads of working professionals who care about you, your projects and your goals.

Join the Community for Free!

The community component of Comics Experience is the beating heart of what we do. We’re all about making connections with other people, be they fans, creators, publishers, retailers! The amazing art form of comics is very much about community—and we want our work (and yours!) to connect with readers.

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Community Spotlight

Members of our community are constantly creating and publishing books! Below are some recent examples!

Superman: Red and Blue

Superman: Red and Blue

Rich Douek

This month our cover star Bizarro leaves the Red & Blue family by not being in a story all about his very own birthday.

Wastelanders: Star-Lord

Wastelanders: Star Lord

Rich Douek

PETER QUILL HAUNTED BY HIS PAST! The legendary STAR-LORD has fallen on hard times. With the GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY disbanded, PETER QUILL returned to Earth to find it a wasteland unlike anything he’s seen across the stars – heroes dead, villains in power.

Knight of the Spider Queen

Knight of the Spider Queen

William Montalvo

Rickard has been a warrior for the feared Spider Queen for almost his entire life. But he has begun to wonder if there isn’t something more to life than being a tool of power.

Opus & Ashes

Opus & Ashes

Brett Simon

Two best friends. One overbearing mother. Trapped with no heat in a cabin during a brutal blizzard. Helena Santos’s struggle for her life and her life’s work has just begun. Read the gripping thriller by Brett Simon and Sergi Domenech!

A Tiger's Tale

A Tiger’s Tale Volume One

Patrick Lugo

All Kan ever wanted was to live in his forest as a tiger should. But when his mother adopted two human foundlings, Kan’s jealousy cost him his family and home.

Breath of Shadows

Breath of Shadows

Rich Douek

It’s the mid-1960s, and Jimmy Meadows should be on top of the world. His band’s most recent album just went gold, and they’re riding a wave to international fame. But Jimmy is driven by only one thing: where to get his next fix.

First Three

First Three

Chris Clark

The age of humanity begins! The first three people on Earth burst out of a rock womb to find themselves in a paradise of talking animals and obedient firewood. But two men and one woman is one man too many, and enough… never is.

The Ineffable N.A.R.L.I.

The Ineffable N.A.R.L.I.

Kevin Michael Rowe

Join the bodacious bot as he takes his drivers test, protects his mom from the diabolical plans of the Nerd and B.O.G.U.S., and witness the debut of what will be N.A.R.L.I’s greatest foe, G.R.O.D.I.!

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